Summoner 6.0 Rework (my reimagining)

[Shurrikhan]

but thats what SE or players want for SMN?

that pets are now invisibly entities for the mobs is something that still feels wrong to me after all this time.

Personally, making pets even less like pets to be more responsive would be at best a lesser evil.

Right now we have the worst of both worlds, though: our pets are barely pets and they're just about as unresponsive as before.

While there are doubtless some hard limits there, it doesn't seem like we even hit that wall before choosing to gut ACN/SMN pets.

Personally, if we're going to get the Reaper treatment, there at least needs to be some illusion of the egi as a separate and persistent entity, even if one phasing in and out of full manifestation. Heck, it could even be a globe of light most of the time, so long as it isn't clearly fixed to our character's facing and positioning or (by whatever reason) feel like it's just an attachment to our character model. Heck, just imagine how bad that's going to look on these Reaper animations if one turns their character, mid-animation, unless we finally get dynamic animations on the Voidsent itself (such that it continues to face the enemy from our position, rather than merely matching our character facing).

(Of course, dynamic animations like that would be a huge boon regardless; just imagine if Heavy Shot, for instance, finally aimed at its target instead of just wherever the Archer/Bard is facing to then fire at whatever angle out of the bow.)